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The infection of  Bombyx mori  nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) in silkworms is often lethal. It is difficult to prevent, and its lethality is correlated with both viral particle characteristics and silkworm strains. Low doses of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO 2  NPs) can promote silkworm growth and improve its resistance to organophosphate pesticides. In this study, TiO 2  NPs’ effect on BmNPV resistance was investigated by analyzing the characteristics of BmNPV proliferation and transcriptional differences in silkworm midgut and the transcriptional changes of immunity related genes after feeding with TiO 2  NPs. We found that low doses of TiO 2  NPs improved the resistance of silkworm against BmNPV by 14.88-fold, with the mortalities of the experimental group and control group being 0.56% and 8.33% at 144 h, respectively. The proliferation of BmNPV in the midgut was significantly increased 72 h after infection in both experimental and control groups; the control group reached the peak at 120 h, while the experimental group took 24 more hours to reach the maximal value that was 12.63 times lower than the control, indicating that TiO 2  NPs can inhibit BmNPV proliferation in the midgut. Consistently, the expression of the BmNPV-resistant gene  Bmlipase-1  had the same increase pattern as the proliferation changes. Immune signaling pathway analysis revealed that TiO 2  NPs inhibited the proliferation of silkworm BmNPV to reduce the activation levels of janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt signaling pathway, while promoting the expression of  Bmakt  to improve the immunity. Overall, our results demonstrate that TiO 2  NPs increase silkworm resistance against BmNPV by inhibiting virus proliferation and improving immunity in silkworms.

Mechanism of Enhanced Bombyx mori Nucleopolyhedrovirus-Resistance by Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Silkworm